| A | B |
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| Knight | warrior on horseback; beginning at about the age of 21 |
| Chivalry | a complex code of behavior and ideals for knights |
| Tournaments | competitions which knights combined recreation with combat training |
| Troubadours | travelling poets and musicians who performed at the courts of the nobility of Europe |
| Page | a knights’ youngest assistant; training began at the age of about 7 years old |
| Squire | the knights’ teenage assistant; training began at the age of 14 |
| Siege Tower | platform that was placed next to the castle wall from which combatants would try to gain entry to the castle |
| Battering Ram | made of heavy timber with a sharp metal tip to knock down or puncture the castle’s doors |
| Trebucket | a giant sling-shot that could hurl large objects up to 980 feet |
| Tortoise | a wheeled and covered building used to get combatants to the castle walls without being pelted from above |
| Manlet | large, portable shielding for soldiers |
| The Song of Roland | a medieval, epic poem which praises the French soldiers who perished in the battles against the Muslims |
| Turpin | an Archbishop in the Song of Roland who represents the quintessential medieval ideals of courage, faith, and chivalry |
